Say what you will about the iPhone 5 rumour mill but it never is uninteresting. After having gone back and forth over how many models of iPhone Apple is releasing on Tuesday, the appearance of cases for a teardrop-shaped iPhone 5 in ATT retail stores may mean that the company is planning on releasing...
In its ongoing quest to help publishers and designers adapt print-style layouts to the Web across devices, Adobe has admittedly run into a few limitations. As powerful as HTML and CSS are, they don’t yet offer the means to create layouts with unlimited flexibility like print designers can. Not content to settle for what’s...
Last night at an informal gathering of tech people, someone likened Silicon Valley to a “Las Vegas for people who want to make crazy shit” equating VCs and angel investors to gamblers of sorts. Well if investors are gamblers, and startups are hands of cards, what does that make engineers? I don’t know (in...
Massive severance packages are nothing new, but sometimes you just feel the need to call attention to them. Ousted HP CEO Leo Apotheker is leaving the company with a $7.2 million severance payment, plus a $2.4 million bonus and $3.7m in stock (more if you count the other 440,000 vested shares). I understand that...
Autonomy’s impending acquisition by Hewlett-Packard is nearly done. The $10.3 billion deal was cleared by regulators in the U.S. and Australia on Thursday. Autonomy shareholders still have until Monday morning 10 a.m. U.K time to weigh in, according to a company spokeswoman cited in reports. Autonomy’s enterprise search capabilities could be a boost to HP’s big data...
Last week I caught up with Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of the New York-based startup, Foursquare. While I have spent a lot of time chatting with his co-founder Dennis Crowley, it was the first time I got to spend quality time with Naveen. We snapped some of it on tape and here is a slightly...
I was able to sit down with the Peoplebrowsr team this week to get a sneak peek of a new service by the company called “Kred“. They shared a quote with us. Time Magazine says: Influence is impossible to measure. Kred is most certainly an instant competitor to Klout, who calls its service the...
Mobile voice search app Dragon Go! recently pushed out a major upgrade to its iOS app, which lets you verbally request more multimedia content, retrieve information from more sources and interact with Google Plus. The app now integrates with Netflix, Spotify, Wolfram Alpha and Ask.com, in addition to a host of other sources, from...
There has been speculation for a while now that Oracle might someday make its foray into the Hadoop and NoSQL spaces, and next week looks like that time. With regard to Hadoop, CEO Larry Ellison made it clear during last week’s earnings call that the company is working on a connector that will let...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), telecom executives are “overconfident in...